Shannon, that actually sounds like an excellent, organized and well thought out and orchestrated technique. Of course, I keep mine in seperate deli cups and hand feed with tongs, once they are trained and have a rapid feeding response to the lid being opened, I can usually go from cup to cup, only spending about 10-20 seconds or less on each snake including writing on the lab tape on the lid the date and what they ate in short-hand, that is my speed version, but your system sounds like an excellent way to keep track of who is eating and who is not when housing multiple youngsters togather, of course Steves method might also actually keep them more comfortable (less stress) and feeding well too, however I am an anal records keeping scientist, so I couldn't do that without being able to know excatly who ate when and documenting it, (God I'm a freak, when you actually think about it, but I can't help it, I have been programmed to do a job for the government, like an unbiased robot ) To each their own, whatever works for YOU is always the best way for YOU (us all)